Sankaran Sundaresan

Norman John Sollenberger Professor in Engineering, Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Website: http://www.princeton.edu/cbe/people/faculty/sundaresan/

Office: E-Quad, A315

Phone: 609-258-4583

Research interests: Granular and multiphase flow; chemical reactor design, stability and dynamics; origin and hierarchy of meso-scale structures in two-phase flows; coarsened equations of motion for two-phase flows; contact stresses in granular assemblies; role of static electrification on gas-particle flows

News

  • Computer simulation graphic showing hundreds of thousands of atoms in two planes, representing two surfaces, with an abstract web-like channel showing how charge carriers move between the surfaces.

    The science of static shock jolted into the 21st century

  • portrait of Sundaresan

    Sundaresan recognized for lifetime achievement in chemical engineering

  • Prismatic graphic with words "Commendation for Outstanding Teaching"

    Faculty commended for outstanding teaching

  • Three innovative projects selected to receive funding from the Schmidt Transformative Technology Fund

  • image of power grid and water bubbles

    E-ffiliates program funds efforts to safeguard the power grid and pull drinking water from air

  • Award winners pose with Princeton President Christopher L. Eisgruber

    Teachers’ passion helps set life trajectories

Research

  • Applied Math

  • Applied Physics

  • Bioengineering and Health

Affiliations

  • Professor and student work together in lab setting.

    Chemical and Biological Engineering

  • Faculty member, seated at end of row of colleagues, leads panel discussion.

    Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment

  • Researchers, dressed in white suits, work in "clean room" lab under yellow light.

    Princeton Materials Institute